David Cameron has called on the European Commission to send a team to
Gibraltar to investigate additional border checks introduced by Spain.

The Prime Minister phoned José Manuel Barroso, the Commission’s President, to
call the action by Spain politically motivated and disproportionate and
therefore contrary to the right of free movement in the EU.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister said Mr Cameron made clear that he would
prefer to resolve this issue through political dialogue, “consequently, both
the PM and the Foreign Secretary had called their Spanish counterparts to
try to find a way to de-escalate the issue”, the